Childhood Lost

Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).

Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.

Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism

(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)

"What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless."

John Stone,

UK media editor, Age of Autism

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"The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country."

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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(UK) Teachers union "advises its members on how to deal with violence in the classroom"

Dec 22, 2017, (UK) Belfast Telegraph: School discipline shock as levels of suspension and expulsion revealedhttps://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/school-discipline-shock-as-levels-of-suspension-and-expulsion-revealed-36428925.htmlMore than 10,000 pupils were suspended from schools across Northern Ireland in just three years.
A further 73 were expelled because of their indiscipline, statistics from the Education Authority (EA) reveal.
The problem is so bad that one teaching union had to produce advice for its members on how to deal with violence in the classroom.
In the three academic years up to 2016, at least 10,380 pupils were suspended.
The numbers increased by 13% in that period - from 3,313 in 2013/14 to 3,759 in 2015/16. …
Across Northern Ireland, more than 3,500 suspensions were for a physical attack on a fellow student, while more than 600 related to physical attacks on school staff.
Teaching unions expressed alarm at the figures. Mark McTaggart, assistant Northern secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO), said his organisation was growing more and more concerned about the rise in assaults.
"The number of reported physical assaults on teachers has risen from approximately 210 assaults in 2014/15 to 650 in 2015/16," he said.
"However, INTO is aware that many teachers do not report assaults, so the real number is much higher. …